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Thousands More Species at Risk of Extinction Than Currently Recorded: New Study

Lilly P. Harvey 11/08/2022

Researchers in Norway have tried to shed light on...

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To Bennu and Back, Looking for Clues of Our Origins – and Maybe Of Our End

Partha Pratim Bera 11/04/2019

After travelling over 3.21 million km, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft...

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Long Ago, the Number of Meteors Hitting Earth Spiked Suddenly – and Didn’t Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/01/2019

Something happened in the Solar System about 300 million...

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Extinction Is Happening at 1,000 Times the Normal Speed

Elizabeth Boakes and David Redding 10/07/2018

Extinction is broadening its reach, so consensus and urgent...

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A New Way to Measure the Five Death-Blows Earth Dealt to Its Life

Sarah Iqbal 23/05/2018

Scientists extended the idea behind a discovery made in...

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Could Asteroid Strikes Cause Mass Extinctions on Earth in Ten Million Years?

Sanna Alwmark and Matthias Meier 26/06/2017

Researchers are looking at whether devastating asteroid strikes are...